With decades of tooling innovation, Exactaform helps aerospace leaders cut costs, optimise processes, and achieve unmatched drilling performance.
At Exactaform, we’ve spent decades innovating tooling that does more than cut holes. Our aerospace drills are engineered to optimise your processes. Every design we create is shaped around real production challenges, balancing geometry, material, and performance to deliver consistency, reliability, and measurable cost savings.
While PCD tipped tooling is our speciality, we also design and manufacture carbide drills, HSS drills, and diamond-coated solutions to ensure you have the right tool for every application.
Jamie White and Martin Burns, Aerospace Sales Manager, discuss the challenges of machining modern materials, how Exactaform partners with leading aerospace manufacturers, and where the industry is heading next.
Our aerospace drills are built to meet the exacting standards of modern aircraft production, combining advanced PCD tooling with precision-engineered geometries. The result is faster machining, longer tool life, and consistent quality, no matter the material or stack configuration.
Solid PCD tips deliver exceptional wear resistance, even in highly abrasive composites.
Our patented combination tools drill, ream, and countersink in a single operation, eliminating multiple tool changes and boosting throughput.
Every hole meets aerospace tolerance standards, with excellent Cp and surface finish across CFRP, aluminium, titanium, and mixed stacks.
Push tooling harder and longer — our solid PCD drills have been proven to cut cycle time from 54 seconds to just 8 seconds per hole.
Many of our drills can be reworked and reused up to six times, delivering exceptional value over the tool’s life.
Polished and spiral flutes manage swarf efficiently, reducing heat build-up and improving hole finish.
For aerospace manufacturers who need results fast, the Aero-CARB range delivers quicker drilling solutions designed for the most demanding composite and stack applications. Each tool is engineered for precision, efficiency, and exceptional tool life, helping you hit production targets without compromise.
When you need the right aerospace tool without delay, Aero-CARB gives you a proven, ready-to-go solution.
Exactaform aerospace drills are purpose-built for the toughest materials and the most demanding production environments. From high-precision composite work to high-speed stack drilling, our tooling is trusted by leading aerospace manufacturers to deliver consistent, repeatable performance every time.
Engineered to prevent delamination and burst-out, ensuring clean entry and exit in even the most abrasive composite structures.
Optimised cutting geometries provide stability, accuracy, and reduced tool wear when working with hard, heat-resistant alloys.
Delivers precise tolerances and smooth surface finishes in aluminium and multi-layer stacks, keeping rework to a minimum.
Combination tools reduce tool changes and keep automated production running at maximum throughput without compromising hole quality.
As materials, assembly processes, and quality standards evolve across aerospace and automotive sectors, the expectations placed on countersink drilling have changed dramatically. Countersinking has become a high-precision, high-impact operation that plays a critical role in structural integrity, performance, and manufacturing efficiency.Â
Drilling in composites requires a high understanding of tool mechanics, material properties, and process control. Exactaform’s engineering approach to drilling in composites focuses on tool innovation, process optimisation, and machining strategies that allow manufacturers to drill composites more efficiently, with higher precision and extended tool life. Â
Our UK and US manufacturing sites hold stock for rapid delivery and can design custom geometries for your exact application.
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